Bart 111 Convener: Ann Pancake, Independent • Ann Pancake, Independent • Elizabeth Hoggard-King, University of Georgia • Walter King, Independent • Doug Van Gundy, West Virginia Wesleyan College
• Gordon Johnston, Mercer University
Friday March 21, 2025 8:00am - 9:15am CDT
Bartoo Hall
BART 327 Convener: Chris Green, Berea College • "Being Loyal: Some Notes on Editing Loyal Jones's Memoir," Chris Green, Berea College • "My Mother’s Translator: Stories and Poems from an Affrilachian Migrant," E.J. Wade, Independent
Friday March 21, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
Bartoo Hall
BART 117 Convener: Audrey Nidiffer, Appalachian State University • "Made for the Tourists: Searching for Sustainable, Economic Development in Sevier County, Tennessee," Mazdyn Miller, University of Tennessee, Knoxville • "‘Above it All’: A Rhetorical Analysis of Second-Home Billboards in Appalachia," Audrey Nidiffer, Appalachian State University • "The Black Appalachian Cultural Center: Building an African American Cultural Heritage Tourism Sector in Southern West Virginia," Cicero Fain III, Marshall University
Friday March 21, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
Bartoo Hall
BART 117 Convener: Caroline VerMeulen, Indiana University • "Bottling Tradition: The Appalachian Imaginary and Craft Moonshine in Indiana," Caroline VerMeulen, Indiana University • "Moonshine and the Environment," Arshiya Jeelani, University of Kentucky • "Moonshine Cosmology," Emelie Peine, University of Puget Sound
Friday March 21, 2025 1:30pm - 2:45pm CDT
Bartoo Hall
"Reflections on Community-Based Partnerships as Students and Our Perspectives 50 Years Later," Nancy Raybin, Independent; Diane Lauver, Independent; Dale Strasser, Independent; Polly McArthur, Independent
Friday March 21, 2025 1:30pm - 2:45pm CDT
Bartoo Hall
BART 111 Convener: Paul Reed, University of Alabama • "The Mountain South Versus the Deep South — Surprising Similarities Between Two Storytellers from Each Region," Jeremiah Farmer, Clemson University • "An Individual View of Appalachian Englishes: A Lifetime of Change," Paul Reed, University of Alabama • "The Traditional “Grass” Vowel in Appalachian English," Bridget Anderson, Old Dominion University
Friday March 21, 2025 4:30pm - 5:45pm CDT
Bartoo Hall
"Geographic Variations in U.S. Natural Gas Pipeline Incidents: Misalignment Between Administrative Boundaries and the Appalachian Region," Jacob Hileman, West Virginia University
"Linking Streamflow Trends with Land Cover in a Southern USA Water Tower," Alexander Miele, LSU
"Sustainable Methodologies for Degradation of PET-based Microplastics along the Tennessee River," Kyle Murphy, Tennessee Tech University
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 9:15am CDT
Bartoo Hall
BART 307 Convener: Summer King, University of Mississippi
"The Potential of Religion in Appalachian Sustainability Transitions: The Case of Bethlehem Farm," Julius Malin, University of Basel
"Hearing from Our Own Home: Reading the Pastoral Letters of Catholic Committee of Appalachia as a Model for Synodality," Abigail Rosys, Boston College Clough School of Theology and Ministry
"He Shall Take Up Serpents: The Spread of Pentecostal Snake Handling through Southern Appalachia, 1909-1932," Summer King, University of Mississippi
Saturday March 22, 2025 8:00am - 9:15am CDT
Bartoo Hall
BART 117 Convener: Africa Hands, University at Buffalo
"‘My Grandmother Recommended I Apply’: College Information Seeking among Appalachian Students," Africa Hands, University at Buffalo
"Rank Strangers: Using Liminality to Conceptualize College Transition for Rural Appalachian Students," David Adams, University of Cincinnati
"The Influences That Facilitate the Development of a Sense of Calling among Undergraduate Women Raised and Educated in Appalachia," Lindsay Monihen, Shawnee State University
Saturday March 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am CDT
Bartoo Hall
BART 117 Convener: Michelle Roberts, University of Kentucky
"Insuring Health, Ensuring Limits: A Praxiographic Approach to Health Insurance and Care Delivery for People with Disabilities in Appalachian Kentucky," Michelle Roberts, University of Kentucky
"Diabetes Fatalism in Appalachia: A Concept Analysis," Karen Carver, East Tennessee State University
"‘It’s Generational Trauma’: The Importance of Historically Contextualizing Drug-Related Suffering Amongst Pregnant and Postpartum Women in Appalachian North Georgia," Anna Mullany, Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health
Saturday March 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm CDT
Bartoo Hall
BART 307 Convener: Barry Whittemore, University of North Georgia
"An Historical Perspective on Mining in the Southern Appalachians and its Effects," Barry Whittemore, University of North Georgia
"Health and Extractivism in Central Appalachia," Meghan Albritton, Virginia Tech
"Stories from the Mines: Historical Memories of Westmoreland Coal," Adam Dean, Lincoln Memorial University; Stephanie Holyfield, Lincoln Memorial University
"The Social Lives of Energy Regimes," Nadia Smiecinska, UC Davis
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
Bartoo Hall
BART 327 Convener: Sylvia Shurbutt, Shepherd University, Center for Appalachian Studies and Communities
"Changing Landscapes, Changing Scholarly Approaches: The Work of Robert Gipe," Peter Thompson, University of New Brunswick; Timothy Di Leo Browne, Carleton University
"Historical Remembrance & Appalachian Identity in Ron Rash's The World Made Straight," Grace Buckner, Appalachian State University
"Fluidity and Found Family in Carter Sickels’ The Prettiest Star," Atticus Mason, University of North Carolina at Asheville
"Poetry All Around Us: The Work of West Virginia Poet Laureate Marc Harshman," Sylvia Shurbutt, Shepherd University, Center for Appalachian Studies and Communities
Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
Bartoo Hall
